I was talking to a friend the other night. "You're a Healer, you're supposed to be patient, understanding..." We were joking, so I smiled. But this morning, something about the conversation kind of ringed a bell. I've heard similar things from friends before. Like "I had to" be this or "I had to be that", and "I can't do that anymore" or "follow your own teachings" when I'm having a hard time.

There's no gift we choose to develop that can actually "make us be" something. We are what we are, and we choose to exercise it in several different ways. But we always, still, are.

The other day, for example, I was invited to an opening where I was taught how to make Pisco Sour. It was part of a city tour, and as it's our flag-drink, I was happy to learn in it such a fun way (we were like 30 people that day). After we finished making and drinking our Pisco Sour, we went back to the bus and this time sat upstairs. I love it when the air blows strongly in my face, so when the bus started, I stood up to feel it in all my body. I learned to do that in NY, the first time I got into one of these red sightseeing buses. I was feeling really happy, until I realized there was a TV camera shooting at me. It had been shooting at us all night long. When I got back home, I told my mom all about it; I was a little worried I would be on TV like that, when I'm only starting a professional career as a Healer, in a country where people don't understand much about it, yet.

Her answer was quite logical. I love to have people around to help me get it straight when I begin to worry. She said "It was good something like that happened, because you are a normal person having fun."

So a few days later, when people called me to say I was on TV, and when I met some friends afterwards who had seen the show, I was happy. "I'm just a regular me" -I thought. "I'm just a regular me doing the things I love."

And so, it hit me. When we fully embrace a Spiritual road, we are not meant to cut off with our Earthly life. We are capable of living it in a more fulfilling way. This doesn't mean going to extremes, and we probably won't either, because what gets us to extremes is some kind of emptiness, that which happens when we cutoff with Unity, with All. Therefore, Earthly pleasures are an opportunity for us to enjoy. That is why we're given the most wonderful gift of all: Our body. If we cutoff the experiences we can have with our body, we are cutting off with Unity, we are experiencing less than we're able to, we're not fully enjoying the ride.

Now, if we go to Disney and buy ourselves some tickets for the most amazing ride of all... Wouldn't we want to take it in fully?

That's what I'm talking about.

Blessings be.